hi everyone - this evening i went to help a first year college student friend who has a donated imac with 96 megs of memory and mac os 9.2. i helped him download the printer driver software for an hp deskjet 5120 printer.
when we went to install the software, we got a message saying that this printer driver software requires 128 megs of memory. it's been a while since i've done computer programming, but i can't think of any good reason why printer driver software requires 128 megabytes of memory. perhaps there is feature bloat in this software? whatever the reason, this college student now cannot print his homework at home. he needs to send his homework to himself as a file attachment and then print it at his college -- which charges him for each page he prints. hp is otherwise a decent company and i'm usually a big fan of their products. they need to do better in supporting lower memory computers. under mac os 9.2, 96 megs is by no means "low memory." i wonder if there are any hp employees here on the DDN or CTCNet email lists. is there a way to get the word to the right people about this kind of issue? thanks in advance to anyone who is able to relay this feedback. - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ (personal) http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro (blog) http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro (technology access work) http://mytvstation.blogspot.com/ (video and rich media) "Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others." - Desiderata _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.